Heart of Darkness - pg. 11-21 by https://padlet.com/gpr/heartofdarkness1 "the dark places of the earth" en-us 2018-05-14 03:38:07 UTC 2025-11-28 16:29:24 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Bigthunderstorm.png GROUP 5 (Page 19-Top of 21) chocofelicy https://padlet.com/gpr/heartofdarkness1/wish/260693173 -Black people's eyes are described as "sunken" "enormous and vacant" contrasting with the first time he sees them rowing the boat which described as "glistening" and white.

-The work that the black people are fored to do and the treatment they are subjected to, actually dehumanises the black people.

-"nothing earthly-". 

-The white piece of cloth around the black man's neck is a symbol of white people restricting the freedom of the black people, as well as symbolises their "ownership" over them
-described as "moribund" and "free" like the air.  It may be suggested that freedom can only be achieved near death, or through death

-He describes them as sitting in a "greenish gloom" which not only is the setting of the forest but also may represent sickness. 

-They are alos described as "shadows" which may suggest that he is not familiar with them/ the collective grouping 

-He firsts describe them as a "human" but then calls him a "creature", which features animalistic descriptions of "crawling on all fours.".  ]]> 2018-05-15 02:28:21 UTC https://padlet.com/gpr/heartofdarkness1/wish/260693173 GROUP 4 (PG 17-19) myl0001 https://padlet.com/gpr/heartofdarkness1/wish/260696001 -"I would become acquainted with a flabby, pretending, weak-eyed devil of a rapacious and pitiless folly" 
-"deathlike indifference of unhappy savages" 
-"each had an iron collar on his neck, and all were connected together with a chain whose bights swung between them, rhythmically clinking" 
-"Hanged himself! Why in god's name?...."who knows? the sun too much for him, or the country perhaps" 
-"It is funny what people will do for a few francs a month. I wonder what becomes of that kind when it goes up country" 
-"the thing looked as dead as the carcass of some animal" ]]> 2018-05-15 02:43:39 UTC https://padlet.com/gpr/heartofdarkness1/wish/260696001 GROUP 1 (PG 11-12) https://padlet.com/gpr/heartofdarkness1/wish/260696936 When Marlow goes into the company office he sees a continent map overlaid with blotches of colour, which each stand for different imperial power- while the map itself represents a relatively neutral way of describing colonialism in Africa, Marlow comments on the maps colours to reveal that the imperial powers over Africa are not all the same. 
In fact, the yellow patch, "dead in the centre", covers the site of some of the most disturbing atrocities committed in the name of the Empire. 
"There was a vast amount of red- good to see at any time, because one knows that some real work is done in there, a deuce of a lot of blue, a litle green, smears of orange, and, on the East Coast, a purple patch, to show where the jolly pioneers of progress drink the jolly lager-beer" pg 11.

The gender roles are very male swayed, the females do not get described in a pleasant way unless noting their body shapes and the way they look.]]> 2018-05-15 02:48:35 UTC https://padlet.com/gpr/heartofdarkness1/wish/260696936 GROUP 2 (PG 12-14) https://padlet.com/gpr/heartofdarkness1/wish/260697291  The doctor, according to Marlow, glorifies the Company’s business
*  When Marlow asks why he didn’t go w/ them, the doc ‘sententiously’ replies that he ‘is not a fool’—implication that travelling to Africa is a foolishness in and of itself.
*  Doc ‘measure[s] the crania of those going out there’ but not when they come back, bc they don’t. ‘The changes take place inside’—implication that they come back mentally disturbed, and this is not scientifically measurable
*  Doc mentions that Marlow is unlike any other Englishman that comes to him—M replies that if he were, he “wouldn’t be talking like this”
*   Foreboding: “in the tropics one must before everything keep calm”
"are you an alienist?" - the doc asks Marlow


]]> 2018-05-15 02:50:51 UTC https://padlet.com/gpr/heartofdarkness1/wish/260697291 Group 3: “One thing” (14) to “nightmares” (17) https://padlet.com/gpr/heartofdarkness1/wish/260697698 "...emissary of light, something like a lower sort of apostle."
"...the merry dance of death and trade goes on in a still and earthy atmosphere as of an overheated catacomb."
"The edge of a colossal jungle, so dark-green as to be almost black, fringed with white surf, ran straight, like a ruled line, far, far away along a blue sea whose glitter was blurred by a creeping mist. The sun was fierce, the land seemed to glisten and drip with steam. Here and there greyish-whitish specks showed up clustered inside the white surf, with a flag flying above them perhaps."
"They shouted, sang; their bodies streamed with perspiration; they had faces like grotesque masks—these chaps; but they had bone, muscle, a wild vitality, an intense energy of movement, that was as natural and true as the surf along their coast. They wanted no excuse for being there. They were a great comfort to look at."]]> 2018-05-15 02:53:52 UTC https://padlet.com/gpr/heartofdarkness1/wish/260697698